From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 11:58:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA21901 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:58:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA21893; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:58:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with UUCP id LAA21556; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA13531; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199805131854.LAA13531@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: Problem installing an RPM file In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "May 13, 98 10:43:27 am" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Cc: wwoods@cybcon.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Doug White: > On Tue, 12 May 1998, William Woods wrote: > > > I ave installed the RPM for FreeBSD and am trying to install an RPM file > > with rpm -i -v -h xxxxxxx.rpm but I get this message: > > > > xxxxx.rpm is for a different operating system > > error: xxxxxxx.rpm cannot be installed > > > > Any idea how to fix this problem? > > Twice in one week? Hm. ... > > Try the --ignoreos flag and see the rpm help message. > > Maybe all this to the faq ...? ``Help! <> for Linux fails and I can't get up'' :-) gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message